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You'd think they'd pronounce 'Beaufort' correctly


The 'Beau' in 'Beaufort' isn't pronounced like the word 'beau' or 'bo', it's pronounced like the 'beau' in 'beautiful'. I've been there, I don't live that far away, my dad was there for a while in the Marines, and I've met many people from there in college and while working, so I think I know how it should be pronounced. This was the first time I've ever heard it pronounced the way he said it. If that guy was in the Navy and had never been to Beaufort I guess it's plausible he wouldn't know how to pronounce it, but you would think that at some point he would have talked to someone who had been there or it would have been mentioned at some point.

While I wasn't really believing this show was going to be real (I thought it was going to be a fictional series the first time I saw a promo) I did watch it with an open mind, but hearing him mispronounce 'Beaufort' basically put an end to my open mindedness.

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So average people don't mispronounce words? It took THAT to convince you this wasn't real?? LMAO!

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Yeah, only people who read the name and are not aware of the area pronounce it "Bo".

MrsPrimitiveBoomstick's bit of stuff

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That bugged me, too. Every time I heard "bowfort " I'd yell, "It's BEWfort " at the TV. There IS a "bowfort" spelled the same in North Carolina. But for someone to mispronounce a city they worked out of just added to the fakeness.

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